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PrintableAnxiety said: adorable2 said:  I like that cover. woops, i was talking about the come cover, though i like that ATWIAD painting too, just not as the official cover. i like what they used for the official cover. though that painting would have made for a good advertisement or something. it should have been used somehow, just not as the album cover.Temporary layoffs! | |
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Lammastide said: IstenSzek said: totally. many of the boots released on sabotage and others have had much better covers than some of his actual albums, lol. i hate the covers for The Gold Experience and New Power Soul with a passion. how could he put that horrible typefont on TGE? along with that lame picture it ruins the total feel of the album. with a different, more slick cover and some more cool pictures of him and the band, performing, him in the studio etc this cd would feel much more like the thing it was promoted to be. he hyped it for so long and spent so much time on changing the tracklist and dragging it around everywhere he went and yet an artist to make so decent artwork probably wans't to be found through all of this. if nothing else they should have just kept the gold cover they allowed David Letterman to show when prince performed dolphin. Agreed. Much of the '90s artwork is so awful it almost ruins the ethos of the projects. I can't immediately think of any packaging I like between, say, Diamonds & Pearls and The Rainbow Children. I think the artwork for Diamonds & Pearls, The Hits and Come are all wonderful. | |
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Anxiety said: adorable2 said: I like that cover. woops, i was talking about the come cover, though i like that ATWIAD painting too, just not as the official cover. i like what they used for the official cover. though that painting would have made for a good advertisement or something. it should have been used somehow, just not as the album cover.remix album  | |
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adorable2 said: Anxiety said: woops, i was talking about the come cover, though i like that ATWIAD painting too, just not as the official cover. i like what they used for the official cover. though that painting would have made for a good advertisement or something. it should have been used somehow, just not as the album cover.Temporary layoffs! stop it, i was talking about the COME art!  | |
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blackguitaristz said: booyah said: Those are all awful - you seriously like the Come artwork?
Anyway, my favorite is this one, for ATWIAD:  Original Artwork 4 'Around The World In A Day' by Jim Warren. (1985)
© Jim Warren Agreed. This one smokes the one that was used. Why P didn't go with this one, I don't know. i think it's a little TOO representational and literal minded. i think the one they actually used for the cover is better because not only is it more whimsical, but it also leaves a LOT of things open to imagination and interpretation. i used to stare at that thing for HOURS, trying to figure out which characters went with what songs, and who prince was supposed to be on the cover, and why sheila had a moustache, and blah blah blah. that unused painting is beautiful, but look at it for a couple of minutes and you're like "okay, i get it." not quite as fun, really.  | |
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Anxiety said: blackguitaristz said: Agreed. This one smokes the one that was used. Why P didn't go with this one, I don't know. i think it's a little TOO representational and literal minded. i think the one they actually used for the cover is better because not only is it more whimsical, but it also leaves a LOT of things open to imagination and interpretation. i used to stare at that thing for HOURS, trying to figure out which characters went with what songs, and who prince was supposed to be on the cover, and why sheila had a moustache, and blah blah blah. that unused painting is beautiful, but look at it for a couple of minutes and you're like "okay, i get it." not quite as fun, really. I can get with this. It's nice because it was officially sanctioned and you can tell the artist put a lot of time and work into it. But you don't get the same kaleidoscopic, psychedelic feel with it that you get with the official art. I like using it for my own means though.  | |
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GangstaFam said: Lammastide said: Agreed. Much of the '90s artwork is so awful it almost ruins the ethos of the projects. I can't immediately think of any packaging I like between, say, Diamonds & Pearls and The Rainbow Children. I think the artwork for Diamonds & Pearls, The Hits and Come are all wonderful. The Herb Ritts stuff for The Hits actually is pretty good. I could do without the Come packaging. Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου
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Lammastide said: The Herb Ritts stuff for The Hits actually is pretty good. I could do without the Come packaging.
You don't think it perfectly suits the music? I love the Sacrifice of Victor photography too. | |
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GangstaFam said: Lammastide said: Agreed. Much of the '90s artwork is so awful it almost ruins the ethos of the projects. I can't immediately think of any packaging I like between, say, Diamonds & Pearls and The Rainbow Children. I think the artwork for Diamonds & Pearls, The Hits and Come are all wonderful. I agree, they are. To a certain extent I can even dig the Emancipation artwork. But beyond that all his 90's releases were horribly packaged. The feel of an album or period became less and less defined in the way it had been in the 80's when an album was a total package of music, artwork, tour and look for prince and his band. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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GangstaFam said: Lammastide said: The Herb Ritts stuff for The Hits actually is pretty good. I could do without the Come packaging.
You don't think it perfectly suits the music? I love the Sacrifice of Victor photography too. i do too. in fact, the 'sacrifice of victor' stuff is some of my favorite photography of prince. his look was SOOO over the top, and the photos were so dark. good stuff.  | |
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I liked the photgraphy for Come. I would have enjoyed it more, though, if the packaging included a full booklet, rather than the fold-out poster thing. | |
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booyah said: I liked the photgraphy for Come. I would have enjoyed it more, though, if the packaging included a full booklet, rather than the fold-out poster thing.
Yeah, maybe. But then you wouldn't get the full majestic impact of the goth church. | |
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I think someone should go on photoshop and create alternate covers for several of the albums that the majority of the orgers dislike the artwork of (NPS and TGE for instance) and post them here. Hell, while they're at it, make alternates to all the covers! I'd love to see what someone would do with SOTT, 1999, PR, Parade, GB, etc. | |
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Anxiety said: blackguitaristz said: Agreed. This one smokes the one that was used. Why P didn't go with this one, I don't know. i think it's a little TOO representational and literal minded. i think the one they actually used for the cover is better because not only is it more whimsical, but it also leaves a LOT of things open to imagination and interpretation. i used to stare at that thing for HOURS, trying to figure out which characters went with what songs, and who prince was supposed to be on the cover, and why sheila had a moustache, and blah blah blah. that unused painting is beautiful, but look at it for a couple of minutes and you're like "okay, i get it." not quite as fun, really. Good points and very true. I do like the fact that u can't tell which one is Prince. Everyone else in the band are dead giveaways. U do know that Micheal is on the cover, right? SynthiaRose said "I'm in love with blackguitaristz. Especially when he talks about Hendrix."
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blackguitaristz said: Anxiety said: i think it's a little TOO representational and literal minded. i think the one they actually used for the cover is better because not only is it more whimsical, but it also leaves a LOT of things open to imagination and interpretation. i used to stare at that thing for HOURS, trying to figure out which characters went with what songs, and who prince was supposed to be on the cover, and why sheila had a moustache, and blah blah blah. that unused painting is beautiful, but look at it for a couple of minutes and you're like "okay, i get it." not quite as fun, really. Good points and very true. I do like the fact that u can't tell which one is Prince. Everyone else in the band are dead giveaways. U do know that Micheal is on the cover, right?  I did't. | |
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love4oneanother said: I think someone should go on photoshop and create alternate covers for several of the albums that the majority of the orgers dislike the artwork of (NPS and TGE for instance) and post them here. Hell, while they're at it, make alternates to all the covers! I'd love to see what someone would do with SOTT, 1999, PR, Parade, GB, etc.
out of all the pictures from The Gold Experience era these two are the only ones i like. they would be nice for a front and back cover to the album imo 
this one for the front cover, with the gold o(+> on the left side of his head in the open space. and the title of the album on the right side of his head in a cool gold shimmering font. 
this one for the back cover with the tracklist on the left side running down that 'wall' in some quirky gold font with possibly highlighting blue shadows it's not the best possible cover but i would have liked something more open and honest like this a lot more than the cover it's got now and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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The typography on his albums since N.E.W.S. has been absolutely shocking!!! Wish his designer was better with type, musicology and the back of 3121 is awful! [Edited 5/24/07 4:41am] 3121... Don't U Wanna Come? |
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rlittler81 said: The typography on his albums since N.E.W.S. has been absolutely shocking!!! Wish his designer was better with type, musicology and the back of 3121 is awful!
yeah, it's like they're not even trying to cover up the fact that it's like prince emails the cover and the tracklist and yells thru the phone "i need it back completed in 5 minutes!!" 
i miss the days when cool type fonts were picked like with Lovesexy or Sign O The Times & Graffity Bridge. Even "The Truth" had a few rather cool fonts with all the songs being in different ones. very cool disc label that one is. and true love lives on lollipops and crisps | |
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IstenSzek said: rlittler81 said: The typography on his albums since N.E.W.S. has been absolutely shocking!!! Wish his designer was better with type, musicology and the back of 3121 is awful!
yeah, it's like they're not even trying to cover up the fact that it's like prince emails the cover and the tracklist and yells thru the phone "i need it back completed in 5 minutes!!"
i miss the days when cool type fonts were picked like with Lovesexy or Sign O The Times & Graffity Bridge. Even "The Truth" had a few rather cool fonts with all the songs being in different ones. very cool disc label that one is. the funniest thing to me is the Musicology liner notes. I guess they ran out of that font halfway through the lyrics "Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you." - Kahlil Gibran | |
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blackguitaristz said: booyah said: Those are all awful - you seriously like the Come artwork?
Anyway, my favorite is this one, for ATWIAD: Original Artwork 4 'Around The World In A Day' by Jim Warren. (1985)
© Jim Warren Agreed. This one smokes the one that was used. Why P didn't go with this one, I don't know. This unused one above looks cheesy like corporate art (in my opinion), all realistic, and not cool. That's exactly why the artwork for Graffiti Bridge was such a disappointment, it looked like art for a Xerox brochure that was trying to be creative, as does this unused artwork... 
The artwork they went with officially for "Around the World" the album and singles is brilliant and impresses even my artistic friends today.  My art book: http://www.lulu.com/spotl...ecomicskid
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ufoclub said: blackguitaristz said: Agreed. This one smokes the one that was used. Why P didn't go with this one, I don't know. This unused one above looks cheesy like corporate art (in my opinion), all realistic, and not cool. That's exactly why the artwork for Graffiti Bridge was such a disappointment, it looked like art for a Xerox brochure that was trying to be creative, as does this unused artwork...
The artwork they went with officially for "Around the World" the album and singles is brilliant and impresses even my artistic friends today. Wonderful! | |
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ufoclub said: blackguitaristz said: Agreed. This one smokes the one that was used. Why P didn't go with this one, I don't know. This unused one above looks cheesy like corporate art (in my opinion), all realistic, and not cool. That's exactly why the artwork for Graffiti Bridge was such a disappointment, it looked like art for a Xerox brochure that was trying to be creative, as does this unused artwork...
The artwork they went with officially for "Around the World" the album and singles is brilliant and impresses even my artistic friends today. I agree. And whats even better about it is that it matches the music inside the cover - psychedelic and whimsy. And experimental. | |
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Anxiety said: in retrospect, i don't mind all that good times-style cartooning. i didn't like it back then, but i think it's aged well. so yeah, i can deal with the artwork. that layout is el sucko, though. i could do better on my nero cd labeling software.
 Could someone explain to an interested layman what the difference is between: Artwork & Layout ? | |
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irreverence said: Anxiety said: in retrospect, i don't mind all that good times-style cartooning. i didn't like it back then, but i think it's aged well. so yeah, i can deal with the artwork. that layout is el sucko, though. i could do better on my nero cd labeling software.
Could someone explain to an interested layman what the difference is between: Artwork & Layout ? sure: artwork is the actual images. the drawings, the paintings, the actual imagery. layout is how the artwork and information is arranged on the album sleeve or liner notes booklet - where the title and artist name appears on the cover, the font they use, how the artwork is centered or if it bleeds off the borders, stuff like that. i'm not the best at explaining these things, but i hope that made sense. | |
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blackguitaristz said: Anxiety said: i think it's a little TOO representational and literal minded. i think the one they actually used for the cover is better because not only is it more whimsical, but it also leaves a LOT of things open to imagination and interpretation. i used to stare at that thing for HOURS, trying to figure out which characters went with what songs, and who prince was supposed to be on the cover, and why sheila had a moustache, and blah blah blah. that unused painting is beautiful, but look at it for a couple of minutes and you're like "okay, i get it." not quite as fun, really. Good points and very true. I do like the fact that u can't tell which one is Prince. Everyone else in the band are dead giveaways. U do know that Micheal is on the cover, right? my impression now is that there is a bit of prince represented in each of the characters on the cover. when the album first came out, i thought he was the robed character hidden in the corner behind the other two robed people...the guy with the purple cowl...because he wore that purple cape to the oscars and wendy pretty much looked like the girl on the see-saw on the album cover. then the raspberry beret video came out and blew my theory out of the water.
some people say they think the character in the purple cowl is supposed to be sly stone. interesting.  | |
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blackguitaristz said: Anxiety said: i think it's a little TOO representational and literal minded. i think the one they actually used for the cover is better because not only is it more whimsical, but it also leaves a LOT of things open to imagination and interpretation. i used to stare at that thing for HOURS, trying to figure out which characters went with what songs, and who prince was supposed to be on the cover, and why sheila had a moustache, and blah blah blah. that unused painting is beautiful, but look at it for a couple of minutes and you're like "okay, i get it." not quite as fun, really. Good points and very true. I do like the fact that u can't tell which one is Prince. Everyone else in the band are dead giveaways. U do know that Micheal is on the cover, right? MICHAEL? where? My art book: http://www.lulu.com/spotl...ecomicskid
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ufoclub said: blackguitaristz said: Good points and very true. I do like the fact that u can't tell which one is Prince. Everyone else in the band are dead giveaways. U do know that Micheal is on the cover, right? MICHAEL? where? i've heard people on here say that he's the guy in the purple cape, too. i'd believe it's sly over michael (i'm not sold on it being either), but who knows? maybe blackguitaristz had a different character in mind... | |
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